Discord.js Discord bot template
Basic bot template with command handler and event handler.
This is being updated to discord.js v14 and to use slash commands
This README is gonna be rewritten later
Change Token and prefix in config.json
Make commands in commands
folder.
There is ping
command in commands
folder
the default prefix of the bot is !
you can change this in the config.json
Prerequisites
What things you need to install the software and how to install them:
Node.js
Installing:
A step by step series of how to get the bot running
Install Node.js:
- Goto downloads
- You can choose the lts or the current version of node.js depending on what you want
then download the installer according to your operating system
Node.js
Installing discord.js and making the bot folder
After you have node.js:
- Create a folder on your computer.
- On windows open cmd and copy the folder location from top of the file browser.
- On cmd type cd "then paste the location" and enter
- Do in the cmd
npm i discord.js
to install discord.js
Before you do the install command make sure the cmd window is in the right folder
what is the api used to connect to Discord.
Getting this bot and starting it:
- Download this project as a zip file then move the zip file to the folder you created
- Unzip it there then put token in the config.json to get a token goto Discord Developer Site link below
- After you have token in config.json and have installed discord.js you can start bot by typing
node app.js
Discord Developer Site
Other things you can do for bot develoment
You can install nodemon to restart the bot everytime the bot file is changed
to install nodemon globally type `npm i -g nodemon`
Authors
Built With
- Node.js - the base that the bot runs on
- discord.js - node.js link to the discord bot api